As per usual there were some pretty impressive adverts propping up the Super Bowl coverage in the US this year.

But once which apparently didn’t make the cut – according to Ben Stiller anyway – was this little number which he claimed had been ‘dropped’ right at the last minute.

It is, in short, an advert for female Viagra – featuring the Zoolander star himself enthusing over the product and its beneficial effect on ladies’ libidos.

And yes, it’s completely fake. But very funny – and even though it might not have made the Super Bowl cut, it still got an airing when Stiller appeared on The Tonight Show earlier this week.

Ben Stiller claimed the ad was dropped from the Super Bowl at the last minute (Picture: NBC)

‘You know, there are all those ads for male Viagra out there, but people don’t realize there’s female Viagra. I thought it’d be great to get the word out, so I did this spot,’ Ben explained.

‘It’s more of a public service announcement than anything else.’

Sure enough, the ad – featuring Ben attempting to look seductive in a football jersey – talks about the product’s unique selling points, saying it allows ‘women to get in the mood and stay in the mood’.

However, it also warns potential buyers that ‘potential side effects include dizziness, nausea, and having sex with your husband’.

And it also suggests you ‘ask your doctor if you’re mentally prepared to see your husband without his shirt on’.

We can’t imagine how it would have gone down if it really had been shown during the Super Bowl.

Stiller, meanwhile, returns to cinema screens in Zoolander 2 – once again as the really, really, ridiculously good-looking model Derek Zoolander – which is released on Friday.